During the third week of March from 17th to 21st, students worked in multinational and multidisciplinary team on “Smart sustainable food production and technology of the future” in the frames of the Blended Intensive Programm (BIP) Block Week.
The claim on resources, energy, space requirements for food production in the western world is gigantic. For sure there is room for improvement.
Considering it takes 100 liters more water to produce 1 cup of coffee in comparison to 1 cup of tea, and the struggle between corn for food or corn for fuel, we see many other aspects than the meat versus vegetables debate when we were talking about sustainable food/production.
During this BIP week we investigated a broad range of influential factors and potential solutions, ranging from food, water (ab)use over climate change impact and energy input in food production and transport to feed the growing world population.
In total 75 students from the Consortium (FH Dortmund, KU Leuven and UPV/EHU) did their best to absorb knowledge on the topic and translate it into board games to spread it under the general public.
